Lemire
\lə.miʁ\
The verdict
“Lemire” is uncommon French (frequency #51,572 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,572
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l’abbé Jules-Auguste Lemire (1853-1928), fondateur des jardins ouvriers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lemire · Lemire · French
Lemire · rank #51,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,572
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH LHC
Nearest frequency peer: LHC (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Lemire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lacrymo
lacrymo
48,433 corpus weight
- Lafrenière
Lafrenière
48,432 corpus weight
- leap
leap
48,431 corpus weight
- Lemire
Lemire
48,429 corpus weight
- LHC
LHC
48,428 corpus weight
- lichen
lichen
48,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lemire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lemire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.miʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lemire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lemire is uncommon French at frequency #51,572 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə.miʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l’abbé Jules-Auguste Lemire (1853-1928), fondateur des jardins ouvriers.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lemire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lemire, spelled L-E-M-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l’abbé Jules-Auguste Lemire (1853-1928), fondateur des jardins ouvriers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lemire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’abbé Lemire est né à Vieux-Berquin, flamand d’aspect, français d’expression comme tous les habitants de ce patelin du Nord.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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